To W. D. Fox 16 [March 1863]
Down
16th
My dear Fox
Very many thanks for your to me very interesting letter.—1 I did not think it likely that you could add much.— if you should hear what Ram was I shd. like to add it.2
After writing I found sentence in your old letter, which I had overlooked saying that you believed white & slate Musks breed true, so I have put it in cautiously.—3 These facts interest me greatly.
I suppose we must go to Malvern; but it breaks my heart.—4 I am tired with a lot of letters, so goodBye with many thanks | Ever yours | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
If WDF should hear what ram was put to the ewes, CD would like to add it [see Variation 2: 30].
Will add "cautiously" that WDF believes white and slate muscovy ducks breed true [Variation 2: 40].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4044
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Darwin Fox
- Sent from
- Down
- Postmark
- MR 16 63
- Source of text
- Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 137)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4044,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4044.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11
